'Ignorance' in the Bible
The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.
"Is not this the cause of your error," replied Jesus--"your ignorance alike of the Scriptures and of the power of God?
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
For the people of Jerusalem and their rulers, by the judgement they pronounced on Jesus, have actually fulfilled the predictions of the Prophets which are read Sabbath after Sabbath, through ignorance of those predictions and of Him.
For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
For there is a truth, brethren, not revealed hitherto, of which I do not wish to leave you in ignorance, for fear you should attribute superior wisdom to yourselves--the truth, I mean, that partial blindness has fallen upon Israel until the great mass of the Gentiles have come in;
awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.
But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: